I can relate to this article in that as I make every effort to hold someone responsible for their negligence, many people advised against taking action. I was amazed at how many people do not fight back and are willing to sit with losses that should not be theirs.

In my life, I have seen a lot of people who simply do not fight back and sit with all kinds of abuse. It never ceases to amaze me to be honest. And the statistics must somehow be well known because when one does choose to fight back, the system is designed to make that fight long, long, and difficult. In my fight the person I am fighting has a lot of power in using time (years) to wear me out, and it is legal. And that is another thing people seem to know. The constant message is pick up you life, don't waste your time fighting back, because it is a grueling process.

As this is a known fact, society as a whole feels a sense of not being empowered enough to make a real stand against those that take advantage, abuse, and are negligent.

With the process I am involved in, I can see why many just count their losses and run. And the sentiment I do get is that I should not fight back. It is a strange response in my opinion. It is hard to comprehend that it is well known and is perfectly legal to make a victim wait out a long process that perpetrators and their insurance companies use to escape the responsibility of addressing damage and financial responsibility. It is called due process, but it is allowed to go on for many years and further victimize a true victim.

I will never forget the day my neighbor approached me asking if I had a problem with him knowing full well and even admitting a problem when I experienced damage from a malfuction in their underground electric containment system for their dog. Initially my first attorney guestimated a date as I was trying to process and address many damaged horses/ponies. My neighbor didn't like that date and stood there looking me in the eye telling me it was his word against mine and he replied "I know for a fact that fence was broken the beginning of May" and that was exactly the time line I had already figured out and turned into my attorney.
He was admitting that he was well aware that fence was malfunctioning for almost three months. And this conversation took place with him standing next to a no tresspassing sign I had put up that he admitted tearing down because he didn't like it and in order for him to tear it down he had to trespass to do so.

It has been over 4 years of addressing damage, great debt due to damage, taunts from my neighbor, loss of business and experiencing a condition called PTSD that continues to challenge and cripple me. And every once in a while I hear a comment like, its too hard to fight back, it will end up killing you, and the system in place makes the process completely draining. Oh, and be prepared to still lose everything.

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